Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-05-05

undertaken by the Press & Dakotaian ii
executed.
A locomotive left the Yankton shops
last night under orders to go out on TIE
Manila line to assist in the work Of
~surfacing the new road bed.
The Yankton city and Yankton col
lege base ball clubs will meet each othel
on the diamond field near Foerster's
brewery or Saturday afternoon.
Sheriff Kincel went to Sioux Falls
this morning with Reuben 81. saamway
under his wing. Reuben will begin to-
day a service of seven years under dur
anoe in the p~enitentiary.
City Clerk James K,nsgbury asks the
Press and Dakotaian to that
his official headquarters are at VIM.
Blatt's store, where the city business
will receive attention at all hours.
Arbor day o~bservances have been
quiet in Yankton to-day, but many front
yards, the city park and Yankton college
grounds will be more attractive in days
to come, because of these observances.
ALT Rounds and wife, while enjoying
a buggy ride last evening, were tipped
over on the corner of Pine and Third
streets and to-day they are treating
numerous small but not serious bruises.
Within q week Yankton's street rail-
way will be in the course of construc-
ton. About $1,000 worth of the stock
has been taken, which amount is sufi-
cient to allow the company to begin
work.
Yapkton's building association is
booming. Its Office was crowded last
evening and applications for loans were
numerous. Its management is anxious
to increase the membership. Everybody
should go in. 1t is the best investment
9 poor man or a rich man can make.
Small bridges are to be built about q
Thousand yards apart in the low spots on
the Yankton Sioux City line. They
will let water through in food times
and prevent the overflow and partial
destruction OF the road bed. The Mil
waukee folks are putting their line in
order for a rush of business.
The drill has been pounding away in
the artesisn we'll at the brick yards all
day and g. evening the bottom of the
hole is over 400 feet below the earth's sur
face. Some trouble has been experience
ed by the diggeIs with sand and mud,
but this is a perfectly natural course of
events and need not be regarded as dis
astrous.
The Chicago, Milwaukee g. st. Paul
track which has been in rather an I'M
finished condition for years past be-
tween Yankton and Sioux City, is now
being supplied with gravel ballast, new
ties where needed and steel rails. A
large construction train has been en-
gagged in this work for two months, and
is nearing the end of its task.
An unknown man caused o small
amount of excitement on Third street
last evening in front of Pederson's store
by fainting away. IL seems that he had
lifted too hard on q safe weighing many
tons in the earlier days of his youth and
he now keeps himself together with q
truss. Yesterday he bought a new
apparatus and the physician fastened it
on too tight, thus causing him to faint.
Joseph Cook will close the college
lecture course at the Congregational
church tomorrow evening, taking for
his subject "Seyen Modern Wonders"
This renowned speaker is offered by the
lecture committee with the full assur-
ance that he will prove in every way
satisfactory to his Yankton audience.
He needs no laudation, no introduction
He is Joseph Cook and he will be with
us tomorrow evening,
City governments are conservative
but If ours could be moved tc
boom long enough to build q com
bined city hall, iail and hose
house it wouldn't be q bad departure
The city needs q place where its money
books and property can be made secure
and the venerable limbs of u alder
manic representatives are entitled t.
something more soothing than the hare
bottom OF a fifty cent chair.
.sThere is lots of business going on il
the country, lots of it, and don't yot
forget it, said o substantial granger tt
a reporter to-day, 'sand it will all be
turned into the money drawers OF tn
city of Yankton pretty soon." With thii
remark he climbed into q wagon loaded
with groceries and machinery and started
his tenn on q brisk! trot for his rura
home. His boad acres are requiring al
his attention just now, which is the cast
with all the Yankton county farmers.
A scene of life and business a~etivlt.
Just now are the yards of the pressed
brick company. The company employ
Eighteen men and boya, and these witt
the assistance of the engine and bricl
machines ore making 10000 brick pc
day. The company expects to do NOR
this year than eyer and with this end il
,iview every spare moment is being mad
, golden. The portable brick hack in
vented by Messrs. Walker and Minel
OF this company, is in use every day j
the yards.
The service at the church Was we
) attended last night and the sermon